Awards

• Winner of Dartmouth Medal (Reference Works) 2012

Overview

The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this often reviled but endlessly fascinating area of the English language, it covers slang from the past five centuries right up to the present day, from all the different English-speaking countries and regions. Every word and phrase is authenticated by genuine and fully-referenced citations of its use, giving the work a level of authority and scholarship unmatched by any other publication in this field. Green's Dictionary of Slang is a groundbreaking work. Quite simply, it is the most authoritative and comprehensive record of slang ever to be made available.

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'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green' -- Martin Amis, Experience Praise for Green's Dictionary of Slang'No previous work of lexicography has ever stood as such a monument to mankind's baseness and wilfull disinclination to self-improve Multi-faceted and unflinching Green's astonishing, peerless collage ... is the entire anglophone world unmediated [Green] belongs to a rare pantheon' -- Jonathan Meades, The Evening Standard 20101118 'the reference work of the vulgar tongue to which all others must now be referred [...] he has now exhibited English slang in more detail than any lexicographer before him' -- Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Telegraph 20101025 '... It's not hyperbolic to suggest that it's the OED of slang' -- Michael Quinion, World Wide Words.com 20101127

'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green' -- Martin Amis, Experience Praise for Jonathon Green's Chambers Slang DictionaryThe most-acclaimed British lexicographer since Johnson has every right to blow off ( late 18th century: to boast, to brag . What did you think?) as he wraps up a new edition of this most mind-bendingly addictive guide to taboo talk. -- Boyd Tonkin, The Independent 20081128 Jonathon Green is the nation's indefatigable lexicographer of filth, a tireless troweller in the slurry of the unsayable. -- John Walsh, 'Hail to the Professor of Profanity', The Independent 20081112

'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green' -- Martin Amis, Experience Praise for Green's Dictionary of Slang'No previous work of lexicography has ever stood as such a monument to mankind's baseness and wilful disinclination to self-improve Multi-faceted and unflinching Green's astonishing, peerless collage ... is the entire anglophone world unmediated [Green] belongs to a rare pantheon' -- Jonathan Meades, The Evening Standard 20101118 'the reference work of the vulgar tongue to which all others must now be referred [...] he has now exhibited English slang in more detail than any lexicographer before him' -- Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Telegraph 20101025 '... It's not hyperbolic to suggest that it's the OED of slang' -- Michael Quinion, World Wide Words.com 20101127 'After more than a decade's labour, Jonathon Green, lexicographer of the subversive, has produced as fine a three-volume dictionary of slang as you would desire to piss upon (1700: phrase meaning excellent, first-rate ).' -- Steven Poole, The Guardian 20101218 ' ... any language lover will find this as compelling a read as a thriller ... The dictionary is a stupendous achievement, in range, meticulous scholarship, and not least enterainment value' -- Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times 20101219 'this is the sort of book that, even when examined for a specific purpose, invites sustained perusal' -- Henry Hitchings, Financial Times 20101230 'A magnificent work of scholarship' -- Colin MacCabe, The New Statesman 20110103 'The range of sources is breathtaking' -- James Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement 20110202 'a wonderfully politically incorrect source of education and entertainment' -- Prof. Chris Williams, walesonline.co.uk 20110529

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Jonathon Green is the English-speaking world's foremost lexicographer of slang. His many publications include Chambers Slang Dictionary, the Slang Thesaurus and Slang Down the Ages. He has also compiled dictionaries of quotations and oral histories of modern culture.

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